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"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."
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"You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there."

"Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price."

"No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied. If today I run at a speed of 100, I keep an aim of running at 200. World has gone far ahead and we need to match that level."

"Many of you think about your childhood and particularly about things that did not work out. Forget that and instead think of what you have achieved and what you aspire to do in the times to come.""

"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."

"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."

"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."

"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."

"Appreciation is a better motivator than pain."

"Ambition is the ignition of a car we call life."
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."

"To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life."

"There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character."
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